Arizona weekly citizen., 1887-08-06

10 irOr ore miurs in Long swamp towns hiE n this county. Some of the shafts srt. 2J e feet deep and they are all filled up an, z the fifteen acres of ground covered vItl b the mines is covered with water, ore - senting the appearance of good s'zeC D lake. The men are out of employment 8 m consequences sDd many of them had s marrow escapes ss the water rushed into } the mines very rapidly. The loss tc D owners IS heavy.
 SAN DIEGo. July 29-A petition slgn. ed by nearly two hundred property own
 CTS was presented to the board of sGpsr- visOrs yesterday to order Q special cleo
 ton at the earliest practicable time for
 the purpose of submitting the question
 of issuing sl50,000 worth of bonds to
 construct roads and build bridges
 throughout the county.
 SAS FRANCISCO, July 29-A publish
 ed statement has been made here that a
 lady occupying high position in socle-
 ty, yesterday presented a forged check
 Tor 25,O00 st one of the leading banks
 and drew the money, and when the fraud
 was discovered search was made for the
 lady and it was found that she had left
 the city. She was followed immediately
 by Captain Lees of the detective force
 and Gen. W. Fl. l.. Barnes. attorney for
 the bank, who overlook her few miles
 out of the city and recovered the money.
 on condition that the affair be kept
 quiet. The bank officials refuse 10 be
 interviewed.
 SAS FRANCISCO, Jnly 29-The transfer of the South Pacific railroad operating
 between this oity and Santa Cruz to-
 Relher with the rival ferry system
 across San Francisco bay, to the South
 ern Pacific OO,, was formally cOnsum
 mated to-day.
 WAsHISGFoS, July 29.-Revenues of
 the month amount to over S32. .0O0, 900; expenditures during the same time
 Sll5,OOO,OOO, paid for pensions, S25, ,5OO,- OOO. Treasurer Hyatt reports a surplus to-day of S65. 100000, an increase of nearly SC, ,OOO.O0O In the same date last month.
 DETROIT, July 29.-Facts which have come to the knO wledge of the Free Press within the past few days, shows the present trip of General Alger, Chauncey M Depew and Henry B. Ledysrd to Europe, involves railroad scheme of the first magnitude. Their trip is for
 
 of bonds of a new transcontinentsl road | with English capitalists. It IS designed | tO build an entirely new line from the | Struits of MackInaw to Duluth. running midway between the consolidated Du- luih, South Shore < Atlantic, the Mil yankee, Lake Shore < Western, and the Chicago < Northwestern roads, which now form the southern boundary of the rn la completed Minneapolis, Saul St. Marie snd Atlantic roads. The road will traverse one of she richest timber and mineral districts in the world and be sufficiently remote from tke parallel lines to enjoy psofitsbIe local traffic Contracts have been secured from the Northern Pacific and Michigan Central upon which the business of the three C1mpanles will be conducted. The Northern PacIfiolu ss'd @ ps@'s - % hand over all it's sea board .rsffic to the new road, and the Michigan Cen tral and the New York Central will after wards carry it esst.
 Continuing the examination of Sta-.i ford, he gave in detail the histIoyv Inf tba building of the Central Pacific. reply ing to an indirect qysssrIon that inc rec ords show tsat over S20,OOOOO0 were pad ta-Jharles Crocker for building org hundred and ten sections of the load. Witness said: "I cannot speak as tO the accuracy of these figures. We worked on those mountains from ten to fifteen thousand men, but after we passed the mountains we had half that number. I would like to tell you of the magnitude of this work. The first 15O u iles to the state lIne was of greater difficulty than to have continued the line from Truckee to Chicago"
 SAS FRANCISCO. July 29-The Central Pacific overland train bringing eastern mail for the Hawaiian Islands and the colonies was but an hour late today, but the departure of the steamship Mari. posa was not delayed in order that the matter could be taken along. John NJ. Spreokles 4 Bros, agents, state in their explanation that their contracts are with the colonial governments, and as all English mail 10 go by this steamer was ID the city this morning, there was nothing to delay the steamer for mail. therefore that which arrived to-day must lay here a month before another steamer sails. As Spreckles receives little or nothing from the United States, he declines any longer to pay the fine that the New Zealand Government i'm poses upon the line for delay, solely to the non-suppOrters of his service. IL is thought that the mails delayed here to-day contain official dis patches from Washington in regard to inc Honolulu trouble.
 PORTLAND. Oregon, July 29- Judge Deadly today made m order on the peti- tIon of Geo. w. Weedler, in the case of Pettier a Strynnes, manufacturers of { New York, allowing certain blocks of I land in East Portland belonging to the estate of the lste Ben. Holladsy, to be { sold in payment of debt.
 WASHINGTON, July 29-A pension has ( been granted to Wm. Coons. of San { Bernsrdino.
 PARIS, July 29.-General Bulsnger's seconds, Count Dillon snd General Favort, have left Cleirrlont-Ferrand with a challenge to EI-Premier Ferry tc fight duel.
 BRUSSELS, July 29,-The chamber of deputies has rejected the proposal to sxtsnd the rght of suffrage.
 SAN FRANCIscO. July 29.-The local wheat market continues tO exhibit in creased strength daily and prices are advancing steadily with the bull traders apparently ID full control of the market. Seller 'S7, which IS now the fsvorite trading option, has advanced from one dollar and ninsty-five cents to two dol .ars and thirteen cents, which was the closing figure tonight. There was a great crush of speculators on change and ( ss the market has been largely oyersold | | he bears were compelled to put up very freely. though no failures are reported. Wheat has been coming ( toward the city in great quantities, but nearly all call board warehouses at Port Costa and other points are filled